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If I Ate More, Would I Weight More?

March 27, 2008 |

On Saturday I took my son with me to get the Easter shopping done. I know, nothing like the last minute right? Anyway, he had an ulterior motive - a new bike. He’s been saving his allowance all winter long and decided since enough snow had melted that you can see parts of the ground, it was time to go shopping. He set a budget for himself and only took a portion of the money he saved. I have no idea where he learned to be thrifty like that - certainly not from me.

New Bike So we scoured the department stores for Easter candy and bikes and he finally found one within his price range that he really liked and met his preset criteria - new and cool. And within his budget. We opted for a 26″ because the boy is 12, only one inch shorter than me and finally of an age to be responsible enough for the bike that it might last longer than a couple of months. This one will grow with him for at least a couple of years.

On Sunday, after gorging himself on chocolate he decided that maybe some exercise was in order - in the form of bike riding. So we carried the box in from my van, brought it into the playroom, unpacked it and set about assembling his new toy. It took us a while but we finally finished it. Nick took his new mode of transportation outside for a test spin and I commenced cleaning up the mess in my basement. As I was putting all of the plastic bags and paper pieces into the big box the bike came in I noticed the instructions across the bottom:

Bike Box

Apparently one isn’t required to check their spelling when writing copy for warnings on packaging materials.

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6 Comments so far

  1. Steph on March 27, 2008 8:39 am

    that is hilarious…. gotta love Wal-Mart! :roll:
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  2. Angela Klocke on March 27, 2008 10:42 am

    Heh! :mrgreen:
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  3. Liz on March 27, 2008 11:21 am

    Hence, your clever post title - hey, it was so nice to hear from you!

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  4. Amy on March 27, 2008 10:40 pm

    yes I can see what you mean :smile:
    My 12 year old son is due for a new bike too, his birthday is coming up and we are all pitching in for it. He’s already taller than me lol

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  5. Candi on March 27, 2008 10:46 pm

    Sweeet looking bike! That is hilarious about the “Weight” thing, makes you wonder about who does this sort of thing that they are that stupid ya know?!

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  6. Michele on April 1, 2008 9:12 am

    Ha! I saw a website once that was full of those kinds of things.

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